Huntsville gazette., 1887-04-23
CT GENERAL INTEREST.

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local paper which has been running for
fifteen years:
/ A New York dentist has pulled
100000 teeth. Think of theman's nerve.
Or. rather, think of the 500, 900 nerves,
of his victims!
-Tramps will not suffer in the least
) by the provision in the Interstate Com
merce bill cutting off free passes.
Bumper passage can be had at the
old rates. Ht t
Some of the salaries of the Ameri-
can Opera Company were as follows:
Theodore Thomas, $1,000 per week;
Manager Locke, $500 per week; M. M.
4 Whitney, 5000 per week, and Candidus
/ $1,000 per month. '+
A New York physician has in
formed five o'clock tea parties that
their brass teapots generate a very
poisonous substance, and society has
concluded to limit their use of brass to
door-knockers and other things.
In collection of plant-eating
beetles made in Ceylon in 1881 and
1882, about one hundred and fifty new
species have been found by an English
entomologist to whom the insects were
submitted for study and description
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The prohibition amendment which
passed the West Virginia Legislature
will be submitted to the voters of the
State at the next general election, in
! 1888. Il only requires a majority OF
the votes cast to make it operative and
part of the constitution.
The stingray is the natural enemy
powerful pair of jaws with which he
considers it no trick whatever 10 smash
the she'll of an oyster into powder, after
which he sucks the meat into his stom-
ach and discards the rocky debris.
The original charter of Philadel-
phia as a city, antedating by ten years
the one now hanging in Independence
Hall, which was supposed to be the
first, has been brought to light 1t is
dated 1891, and was held by family,
who supposed it was simply an old
title deed 9 a{rli
William Kelly and his son were
trimming fallen tree the other day,
near Derby, Conn, and the father,
seizing a limb and bending it, told the
boy to take the axe and cut it off. The
boy took aim, let drive, and cut off one
of his fathers fingers as well as any
surgeon could have done it.
The Mayor of Deadwood has mott
fed parents to keep the boys at home
at night or to make themselves respon-
sible for their appearance at home not
later than nine o'clock in the evening.
After that hour the police will see that
the roaming sections of disconnected
families are cared for at public eX-
pense.
Seth Green states that success in
fish raising can not be acquired by the
reading of book any more than skill
in matchmaking can. Many facts eau
be learned. but experience is needed to
enable one to raise fish. He recon-
mends that operations be commenced
on small scale, and that the business
be extended as ones knowledge in
creaSeS. Hl
Farmer Plaud, of San Miguel, Cal,
hearing that his daughter, who was in
town, was about to elope with rail
road hand drove home with her. Her
lover hired fast horse, followed and
overlook the old man, and made him
give up the girl at the point of his
pistol The two went back to San
Miguel and Mr. Plaud went home alone.
-Cleueldnd Leader. .s
The Supreme Court Of California
has decided in the case Of the estate Of
Andre Briswalter that a marriage to be
legal must be made public, and the
parties must live as husband and wife
"in the face Of their neighbors." The
decision is considered to practically
dispose Of the famous Sharon case
against Sarah Althea, for no pub
licity' was ever given to the Sharon-
Hill marriage aAt f.
"A Concord gentleman relates the
following interesting anecdote: Dur
ing the war of the rebellion, while |
was in charge Of telegraphing in Bos-
ton, went to Governor Andrews
house about midnight one night with
an important message. TO my state
ment of my errand the Governors
good wife answered: You will always
find the Governor at his office at the
State House until two o'clock in the
morning. And we always did
Concord { N. H J Monitor.
While celebrating the Fourth of
July in 1875, Thomas Hannigan, a Sing
Sing IN. Y.) boy, was severely in
jured by the explosion of soda-water
bottle full of powder. He lost the sight
of his right eye, and was badly cut on
the face and neck. Now, afterthe lapse
of over eleven years, he has been re-
lieved of a. piece of bottle glass from
| his lost eye. 1t is three-quarters of All.
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